Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery."
The Zelenskyy-Trump shouting match at the Oval Office was shocking, but shouldn't have come as a total surprise. For weeks, the two sides have been airing out their disagreements in public, with the Ukrainian leader openly describing his American counterpart as a hapless victim of Russian "disinformation space" and Trump denigrating Zelenskyy as a "dictator."
